Trimming Grass and Weeds Around
Old New England Property
(Antique) Granite Landscape Fixtures
Part Six
"The Puzzle of the Pieces"
“ROCKS
ALL OVER THE PLACE (on the property)”.
Literally.
“OMG...
and I THOUGHT
YOU
JUST GO TO THE STORE and BUY them.”
Returning
to the ‘turn your back on it and walk away’ ...release... of the weed whacker
(Part One)... and my ‘old granite rummaging about the property from there on...
we, of latest (Part Five), discerned the old granite fence post ...monuments...
with noting in passing those to be very near the ...old New England property’s
very own colonial era granite... quarry AND THAT also
We
mentioned the in near proximity too of a ...cellar... hole ...that is a hand
dug; one man with hand shovel, hole in the ground with walls ‘lined’ with
granite ‘field stone’ and topped (“capped”) with four to five foot long hand cut granite ‘cap stones’...
cut from the... granite quarry... that is two tenths of a mile away (in...
once-cleared-field that is now... ‘the woods’) ‘over level ground’... AND...
not forgetting our mention of
The
Spring
That
is... a four foot by two foot rectangle...by one and one-half foot deep... that
“NEVER FREEZES” (with a water level that) “NEVER GOES DOWN” ( or has the water
level lower or ‘dry up’)...; an old cut granite ‘lined’...
Old
New England property (antique) granite landscape fixture...
Too.
Breathless
from the STRESS of these discernments... and my suggested ridicule of the “cast
cement’ vision-of-version of old New England property (antique) granite
landscape fixtures (Part Four)... let’s just “go back to the house” and... make
this quandary worse?
Why
not for IF we find a quarry of granite ledge in the forest we, surely, cannot
find ledge to be of itself... an
(“NO!”) old New England property (antique) granite landscape fixture...
too?
But...
now we will ‘know’ (learn)
Of
the ‘calling’ (title)
That
is... not... well understood if heard.
Now
will be heard... AS IT BE;
The
puzzle of its piece.
‘Revered
too’ (turn upon itself)... of being an anchor... of TRUE irrefutable foundation
of (“NO!”) old New England property (antique) granite landscape fixtures.
The
title words are: “Sits on ledge”
“The
house...”
“Sits
on ledge”
To
explain by reversal... “yours doesn’t”.
Isn’t
this a nasty passes-right-by the snotty-ish millstone ‘placed’ (Part Three)?
Oh
yes it does for to say the ‘be able to say’ that:
One’s
colonial old New England home is ‘so old’ that it “sits on ledge”...: Viewing the horizon line will not bring
this cantonment of civilization passages (literally) home. Most choose to ignore the ‘ever hearing
that’ AND the ‘hearing OF that’.
What
‘sits on ledge’ means is the ‘some’; usually ‘a side’ or ‘a corner’ of the very
old colonial settler’s homestead “sits on” the (and only on the) rock ground
(‘ledge’) of the property. That
is...: HOUSE. ROCK... nothing else.
So...
rock gardeners like ledge in the ‘yard’ too. And it goes from there: That... ‘ledge’ is an... old New England property (antique)
granite landscape fixture. Keeps
right on going all over the property including... the chicken house ‘hung on
(sitting) on ledge’... the cranberry bog being ‘formed’ by dammed (damned?)
‘ledge’ back to ‘quarry’ ‘the ledge’ (an action) and finally back to the house
again that has its ‘cellar hole’ ‘dug into’ ‘the ledge’. This last is rephrased in ‘modern’ as
‘gonna TRY to fit’ the septic tank ‘into the ledge’ or ‘else we’ll have to
blast’.
While
I am at composing (composting?) this vignette of chapters (blog posts), I
‘visited’ the quarry. I’ll come
right back to that. I, also,
visited... the northeast corner of the house that ‘sits on ledge’. For perspective... of colonial era old
New England homesteads on old New England properties... the... center of the
house... fireplace kitchen...; the original ‘main room’ of the ‘home’... is a
diagonal line to the ‘sits on ledge’ corner of about ...twelve feet (therefore
“yes” a ‘small’ ‘house’). THIS
whole half of the house space would be divided by two thirds – one third. The smaller third be... a ‘room’ at
that ‘sits on ledge’ corner commonly call ‘the buttery’ but, more usefully
being a room of passage from the ‘back door’ ‘into’ ‘the (fireplace) kitchen
“room”. AT the ‘sits on ledge’
corner... one looks out the window to see that the ‘sits on’ ledge rises very,
very sharply to have (the rock ledge) ‘flush’ with the window’s ...sill. UNDER the ‘floor’ of these rooms... is
a... six inch space holding ... round six inch tapering diameter “TREES” (logs)
that were cut down RIGHT THERE on the property to ‘make the floor’. There is not... on this ‘sits on ledge’
side of the homestead, even a ‘crawl space’. JUST... HOUSE sitting on... ROCK: Nothing else.
And
“yours doesn’t”.
In
the 1740’s... in Coastal Maine New England’s ‘January and February’ THIS
SPACE...
WAS
IT; called “HOME”.
Discovering
that... we have ‘followed back’ “enough” on the old New England property to
find a true... in fact true... ‘ground zero’ (“sits on ledge”)... we NOW may
reasonably study the puzzle and its pieces to fully, truly and
....passionately... understand... the why and the what... that makes the
subject of this vignette; “Trimming Grass and Weeds Around An Old New England
Property (Antique) Granite Landscape Fixtures”, a GENUINE... and a singular...
and a ...truly beautiful ‘when studied’... old New England.
Therefore...
one may now GO BACK down the driveway and retrieve the GOD DAMN weed whacker
and GO BACK to ‘trimming’ the GOD DAMN mold cast cement Italianate Winnie the
Pooh ‘GARDEN FIXTURES’ (“features”?) (Parts One and Four). “OH MIRROR BALL” this is TRUE for that
et al may never be TRIMMED ENOUGH to:
No...
it cannot ever...
“Sit
on ledge”... as the pure strain... of the “Trimming Grass and Weeds Around An
Old New England Property (antique) Granite Landscape Fixtures".
I
never need to trim out there; the ‘sits on ledge’ corner, anyway; it’s the
‘dark corner’ (northeast). Very
little grows there. But I went out
there... anyway... to ‘look at it’ to... like... see... if either the house or
the ledge has moved... one... God... damn... inch. Both are “STILL THERE” I report. That’s a quarter of a millennium “there as that”.
“OH
BUT”... right there then ‘pretty cool’ for, well... I forgot about that but
I... ah... had ah... “yeah” ah... “PUT” a... natural growth forest found Spruce
‘guttered’ ‘tree’ trunk THERE as a ‘natural wood drainage ‘gutter’...: “See ah”... I found the tree in the
forest on the property when I was ‘cutting’ and I ... noted its natural form
value so ‘cut to fit’ it ‘out there’ and brought it back to ‘put there’ to
‘drain the rainwater from the down spout ‘AWAY” from the ...ledge (“sits
on”). The ‘they’ (original old
settlers) did ‘en stuff’ like that in... the 1740’s... TOO. Today... one has to do this “IT” that
way TOO for the... “Building Supply Store” super box stores, et al, “we don’t
have that I THINK I know what you mean”.
Now
we go back to the quarry.
When
I was out there... reviewing....:
I’ve been out there reviewing for DECADES... I was looking over the hand
drilled cut holes... along the ledge... where they “CUT” the “STONE”. I’ll get to THAT... in a future chapter
(blog post). I scrambled up on top
of the ledge and was, like... “yeah” up there TOO ...BUT:
I
find right up on the top ‘ah growing’ “PERFECT” another LARGER AND LONGER
Spruce ‘guttered’ ‘tree’ trunk THERE as a ‘natural wood drainage ‘gutter’...:
I
didn’t ‘cut it’ yet. JUST FILE IT
AWAY... and... perhaps... I... determine a spot... on the old New England
property where I would (maybe.... maybe not) like to “PLACE” that; a natural
wood landscape fixtures. Maybe
not? MAYBE it’s doing JUST FINE as
it is up on the top of the
(Colonial)
old New England property’s (antique) granite landscape fixture; the (a puzzle
of a piece) “quarry”.
All
of these ...unique to colonial New England... pieces to the puzzle... that are
actually more properly... a property’s puzzle of pieces... must... “are now”...
being determined to be ‘of the bedrock’; THEY ALL ‘sit on ledge’...: They all should be tallied... properly trimmed... and
hidden away. I have learned. And pass on.
“Is
there anything else?”
Yes...: Trees. Not lumber. Not
building supplies. TREES. “There was there... (granite) ROCKS
and... TREES. “Trees” ...or the
lack of them... is ALSO a landscape fixture on an old New England property. And I mean... “(antique) trees”.
And
that is a... whole... other... subject... whose suggested role we have had
occur TWICE in THIS chapter; the ‘under the floor’ trees and the ‘natural
gutter’ trees.
That
is all I am going to say... about the “TREES”; ‘suggested role’. I... have enough to sort out with the
weed whacker, the cement garden fixtures... the... “The Corruption”... AND...
The cellar hole... is an old New
England property granite landscape fixture? Too.
Or
did a “YOU” “FILLED OURS IN”?
“Oh...
Another
(old New England property [antique] granite landscape fixture) burial... you
say?”
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